Insider Tips: Getting a Handle on Resolve’s Handles

Every week, Frame.io Insider asks certainly one of our skilled contributors to share a tip, software, or approach that they use on a regular basis and couldn’t dwell with out. This week, Heather Hay reveals us easy methods to use DaVinci Resolve’s handles correctly.

How to make use of DaVinci Resolve’s handles

Picture this: you’re engaged on a mission, and your consumer or editor tells you to ship handles and the size, or they determine on the final minute they want handles on the finish of the mission. (They might use the phrases “head” or “tail” materials, as a substitute of handles. Same factor.) Either manner, right here’s easy methods to deal with handles from begin to end.

First, arrange the preferences to replicate your required quantity of handles. Click on DaVinci Resolve->Preferences->Use->Editing, then scroll all the way down to the Default handles size setting.  24 frames is the default—and what I usually use—however I’ve been requested for something from six frames to 2 minutes.

Next, to see your handles on the Color web page, click on on View->Show Current Clip With Handles.

This is particularly necessary whenever you’re monitoring. You wish to make sure you observe with handles as you go, however view with out handles as you’re employed—particularly with shoppers. It generally is a tough behavior to kind. But you’ll be able to double-check on the finish earlier than you ship.

Then, to make sure you’ve tracked all of the photographs with handles, choose Tracked within the Clips drop-down menu within the Color Page beneath Davinci Resolve. That will solely show your tracked photographs within the timeline. That manner, you’ll be able to simply see all of the tracked photographs to confirm that your monitoring has included handles.

Finally, handles must be rendered in your deliverables. In the Deliver web page, choose the Individual Clips toggle within the Render Settings panel. Scroll all the way down to the Export Video part, and open the Advanced Settings part. You can add body handles there.